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Looks like Bill is one step closer to making new friends in cellblock C. And This time Bricklink made the story. (URL) RENO, Nev. -- A 40-year-old man has been arrested for stealing Legos from several Target stores in Oregon. William Swanberg was (...) (20 years ago, 25-Nov-05, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general, lugnet.people, lugnet.market.brickshops) !!
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| | Re: Bricklink Admin Bill Swanberg arrested for Lego thefts
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HAH! Isn't it ironic that Target has the Falcon on sale for $49.99? :-) (20 years ago, 25-Nov-05, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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| | Re: NQC Programmers do it on one line
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(...) Yeah - simple bad naming of variables and weird indentation is nowhere *near* the degree of weirdness these guys get up to. I don't think you could automate the kinds of creative obfuscation you need to get your code into the winner's circle (...) (20 years ago, 25-Nov-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | My little Holiday setup.
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Hello all. I wanted to setup a small layout for the Holidays. So I picked up a few of the advent calenders and some of the tree sets. It took four trees to make the large version. I am happy with how it turned out. If I had some more parts I would (...) (20 years ago, 25-Nov-05, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: S@H 4515 Straight Rails Color
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(...) I just recently picked up two boxes of straight track from a LEGO® store. There are still in good old Dark Gray. I think LEGO® said they wouldnt change the color of the track. But then again I could be wrong on that. Dave www.GPLR.org (20 years ago, 25-Nov-05, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: When to have December dinner?
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(...) LOL. That's a good one Chris. I suggest 9th or 16th. Let us know. I need to find time to get my Hydroedges put on my Corolla so I can come without smashing into anything. :) Keith (20 years ago, 25-Nov-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: NQC Programmers do it on one line
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(...) They run it through several "beautifying" programs, which eliminate all #define obfuscations. (20 years ago, 25-Nov-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Active pneumatic suspension
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Hi all, It's probably not impressive with the 7-foot-high-man-eati...go-walkers I've seen here :P but here's an active pneumatic suspension I thought up. It's suposed to be activated manually, and after a while (thanks to the "pneumatic parlor (...) (20 years ago, 24-Nov-05, to lugnet.technic)
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| | S@H 4515 Straight Rails Color
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Has anyone purchased 4515 recently from S@H? If so, are they in new dark gray? Thanks! Dustin (20 years ago, 25-Nov-05, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.trains)
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| | Är även hjälmen Lego?
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(URL) någon om den transparanta hjälmen verkligen är Lego? ...för i så fall är det en intressant bit som jag inte har ; ) /Andreas (20 years ago, 25-Nov-05, to lugnet.loc.se)
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| | Re: Största bygget? (Var: SWELug8 + 8421 (Kranbilen))
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(...) Nä faktiskt inte ...allt är gjort av technicaxlar med förlängare och krysstag för att hålla det stabilt...den väger knappt någonting i jämförelse med hur hög den är...men visst är det lite krafter i omlopp...problemet är mest att den bara är (...) (20 years ago, 24-Nov-05, to lugnet.loc.se, FTX)
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| | Re: Road Grader/Thanks...
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(...) My personal preference is horizontal mounting like the 8436. That might look good mounted above the blade running front to back? (...) It appears that the two front cylinders work as an opposed pair ? if this is correct, you may only need to (...) (20 years ago, 24-Nov-05, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: New project: minifig scale walking dragline
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(...) I don't envy you, building a walking drag line mechanism. All that weight on two linkages and their bearing surfaces. Good luck anyway. I'm sure a lot of .Technic readers have though of building a large dragline. Steve (20 years ago, 24-Nov-05, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Adaptor(s)
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If you could have an adaptor to connect A non-Lego item to Lego what would you have? At the moment I'd like a device that connects Lego wires to standard electrical wire. Something like an electric brick with one of those connectors you get on cheap (...) (20 years ago, 24-Nov-05, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic)
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| | New project: minifig scale walking dragline
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Hi, This is my next large model: I won't be surprised if it takes a year to complete it... So far I've come up with a design for a 64 stud diameter slew ring (using monorail track) and a design for the feet. You can find some pictures in this (...) (20 years ago, 24-Nov-05, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: NQC Programmers do it on one line
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(...) I always thought the best way to do this would be to write a program to do it for you. This way the computer could redefine every function and operator and make the program absolutely unreadable. You could even enter your obfuscation program (...) (20 years ago, 24-Nov-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Problem with IR
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(...) I tried adding -v & > output.txt but it didn't work. All it did was light up the towers LED for a bit then quit back to the command line. It did work when I used -v, showing all the sent bytes, but the download still failed. I also managed to (...) (20 years ago, 24-Nov-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Plasmic Bricks dot com
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Bryce - what is the creation you are wearing as a hat - is it the rack? Interesting use of Lego anyway... I like the site - however I noted some links are target blank, and others arent. I would generally say to make sure external links out to (...) (20 years ago, 24-Nov-05, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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| | Re: Need I.D. Help from Technic Experts
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I did see the picture, and I can confirm that Bob is spot on there. (...) -- Danny Staple MBCS OrionRobots (URL) contact details available through website) (20 years ago, 24-Nov-05, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: NQC Programmers do it on one line
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(...) Well, for $90 you can get it back by buying 12 years worth of Nibble on CD-ROM: (URL) you can remember which year it was published in, you can buy one year's worth for $10. (20 years ago, 24-Nov-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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